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Old Jun 25th 2012, 11:19 pm
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I was born and raised just outside Ilkley and had all our children there. Beautiful place and on a sunny day - breathtaking Why oh why did we leave! We will find a way home!!
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Old Jun 25th 2012, 11:29 pm
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.....10 best pubs in North Yorkshire
......what others consider the most scenic drives
......covers some of the highest ground in Yorkshire.
include Upper Swaledale in the drive (Keld), and a pint at Tan Hill Inn, the highest pub in England (and get out of the car and walk over from the pub to Nine Standards Rigg)

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I am a southerner but went to Leeds University. Northerners tend to say southerners are not friendly but I think that's overstated. My husband's Geordie family are very wary of outsiders (ie anyone outside their city limits).
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Old Jun 26th 2012, 10:58 pm
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I don't know if southerners are friendly because I've never lived there, but here in North Yorkshire, the friendliness and kindness of strangers is a daily joy. After living in the New York suburbs where I didn't know any neighbors, we've moved to the exact opposite. Everyone is friendly, everyone has a laugh and a joke all the time, nothing is too much trouble for people. I have chatted more to my neighbors in 6 weeks than I talked to anyone in my street in 13 years. I LOVE it here!
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Originally Posted by sallysimmons
I don't know if southerners are friendly because I've never lived there, but here in North Yorkshire, the friendliness and kindness of strangers is a daily joy. After living in the New York suburbs where I didn't know any neighbors, we've moved to the exact opposite. Everyone is friendly, everyone has a laugh and a joke all the time, nothing is too much trouble for people. I have chatted more to my neighbors in 6 weeks than I talked to anyone in my street in 13 years. I LOVE it here!
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Now I am thinking I should be moving to Yorkshire. Sound great. Glad you are happy to be home.
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Old Jun 27th 2012, 8:19 pm
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Originally Posted by Sally Redux
I am a southerner but went to Leeds University. Northerners tend to say southerners are not friendly but I think that's overstated. My husband's Geordie family are very wary of outsiders (ie anyone outside their city limits).
I did a masters degree at Leeds Uni (dim and distant past) - being a decent Sussex chap, I hadn't wandered further north than the rugged frontier of Oxford before that - I was quite taken aback by the first shopkeeper calling me "love" as in "aaalright love". I thought he was taking the piss out of my burnished southern accent and hinting at me being a poofter, but it did appear to me a normal way for males to interact.

Yorkshiremen - they say what they like, and they like what they bloody-well say (doffs hat to Harry Enfield).
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I did a masters degree at Leeds Uni (dim and distant past) - being a decent Sussex chap, I hadn't wandered further north than the rugged frontier of Oxford before that - I was quite taken aback by the first shopkeeper calling me "love" as in "aaalright love". I thought he was taking the piss out of my burnished southern accent and hinting at me being a poofter, but it did appear to me a normal way for males to interact.

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Old Jun 29th 2012, 7:05 pm
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Originally Posted by Cape Blue
I did a masters degree at Leeds Uni (dim and distant past) - being a decent Sussex chap, I hadn't wandered further north than the rugged frontier of Oxford before that - I was quite taken aback by the first shopkeeper calling me "love" as in "aaalright love". I thought he was taking the piss out of my burnished southern accent and hinting at me being a poofter, but it did appear to me a normal way for males to interact.

Yorkshiremen - they say what they like, and they like what they bloody-well say (doffs hat to Harry Enfield).
If they use the term "old love" to address you, it means that they are annoyed with you, like "listen here old love". In these circumstances, you can usually tell by the tone of voice and it is better to make yourself scarce rather than hanging around for a translation. Sometimes they say, "you can tell a Yorkshireman, but you can't tell him much".

And don't forget the official Yorkshireman's motto (translation provided on request):

'Ear all, see all, say nowt; Sup all, eyt all, pay nowt; And if ivver tha does owt fer nowt - Do it fer thissen"

Like I said on another thread, many think that a Yorkshireman is nothing more than a Scotsman with all of the generosity squeezed out of him. I would like to think that we are just "careful".

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Old Jun 30th 2012, 7:34 am
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I absolutely love being called 'love' again in every shop and by every delivery man, but I know it really puts some outsiders off because I've had friends from the south get upset about it. I just think it's a lovely warm way of living. Younger people do it less than older ones though, so I think it's slowly dying out.

One of my favorite things about Yorkshire is the friendliness of strangers. My husband and I went to visit the village where I grew up, and were standing around outside my mum's old house when a woman walked over and asked if we were looking for the homeowner. We explained and it turns out that he sister owns the house now but wasn't home. After a long chat, she gave me her cell number and told me to call any time to arrange another visit because "I know she'd be happy to show you round." That kind of thing happens all the time here and I love it.
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Originally Posted by sallysimmons
I absolutely love being called 'love' again in every shop and by every delivery man, but I know it really puts some outsiders off because I've had friends from the south get upset about it. I just think it's a lovely warm way of living. Younger people do it less than older ones though, so I think it's slowly dying out.

One of my favorite things about Yorkshire is the friendliness of strangers. My husband and I went to visit the village where I grew up, and were standing around outside my mum's old house when a woman walked over and asked if we were looking for the homeowner. We explained and it turns out that he sister owns the house now but wasn't home. After a long chat, she gave me her cell number and told me to call any time to arrange another visit because "I know she'd be happy to show you round." That kind of thing happens all the time here and I love it.
Its the same in Lancashire, were also a friendly bunch, I remember watching Yanks years ago (which was partially filmed in Stalybridge and Stockport) the two Soldiers in the movie being shocked when a conductor on the buss said "love" a couple of times to them, I still hear a lot of the younger ones saying "love"...I was in our lovely local Coffee shop the other day when the very young male assistant said to this much, much older lady "how are you today love" ......just funny as he sounded like an old dear...ek saying that I say love a lot...but then I am on my way to being an old dear lol...
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